Ever seen the strike rates of batsmen like Adam Gilchrist ? Always greater than 100%. Saw something like that in my Google Adsense account today. See the screenshot. 3 impressions, 4 clicks and a CTR of 133%. Beat that CTR and of course the CPM.

Ever since I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu Feisty, VLC has been making a cracking sound while playing video files especially at high volumes. But Totem plays the movies alright. A bit of searching led me to this bug filed on Launchpad. So I concluded that the problem is with VLC media player. Workaround...

Seems like bloated applications are the order of the day for Windows. And if you want to know what bloated means you just need to try Nero 7 and iTunes. So here I present a list of lightweight, memory efficient applications for Windows XP. These applications do what they are supposed to do without eating...

Don’t know which font to use on your blog or site ? Using good and easily readable fonts is the first step to building a accessible website/blog and it could well be the deciding factor as to how much time visitors spend on your blog. Enter Typetester. An online tool which lets you compare fonts...

This is going to be nothing short of a new revolution. OpenDNS has introduced a new feature enabling you to create your own shortcuts for websites you frequently access. With OpenDNS shortcuts turned on, the address bar of your browser can be used to launch websites via your own shortcuts (for example g for google.com...

When you need to search the internet for something, Google and Yahoo! are the two places you will ever need to go. But why visit Yahoo! and Google separately to search for the same query when you can do so at the same time. Try Releton. Releton returns results for your query from both Google...

By default Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 opens in the Library mode. This may be perfect for hardcore music listeners but some people still prefer the “Now Playing” mode to open by default. But Microsoft has not given any option in the WMP11 preferences to do that. However you can set Windows Media Player 11...

Want to know if how much time your blog takes to load on a browser or to know which component in your blog is taking the longest time to load ? Try Octagate SiteTimer. This AJAX service analyzes a blog and displays how much time it takes for each component in your blog to load....

Thinking of ways you can spice up your blog design ? Using rounded corner images in a blog is a sure shot way to increase the visual impact and the aesthetic appeal of your blog. But not everyone is a pro in Photoshop to create rounded images. RoundedCornr helps in doing just that. It does...

YouTube is a phenomenon nowadays and the ultimate place to find every kind of online video (copyrighted videos too ). Here are 3 useful sites / tools which will give you the ultimate YouTube experience. 1. SpeedBit Video Accelerator for YouTube Tired of the YouTube videos getting stuck in the middle while playing them ?...

This just can’t get any better. A Mac OS X theme / skin for the web based feed reader Google Reader. Jon from HicksDesign has come up with this excellent idea to make Mac users feel at home while using Google Reader. This theme works even better for people (like me) who like to emulate...

Get a step closer to emulating Mac OS X on your PC. Download the fonts available in the Mac OS X operating system. The fonts package on OSX-e.com is the best I have come across. The archive contain the following true type fonts. AppleGaramond Aquabase LITHOGRL Lucida Grande Lucida Mac Lucon Download the archive and...